As he was talking, Liu Chong and Zhai Rong each sent people to report that both departments had entered the city.

Xu Chu ordered Li Quan to lead the cavalry to the north gate to support, which was actually to go through the motions and collect the remnants of the soldiers left by Wu Kuan.

After the army entered the city, in the temple of Liangxian County, Xu Chu summoned the generals to discuss the matter.

Liu Chong and Zhai Rong had learned at this moment that Wu Kuan was killed by Xu Rong, and the three of them were newly attached to Xu Chu's army from Kong Ling's army.

After this battle, Wu Kuan was killed in battle, losing more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and the remaining 3,000 people were led by a new general selected by the Lu soldiers themselves. Liu Chong and Zhai Rong's two Runan soldiers also lost five or six hundred.

Sun Tzu's Art of War: Ten are to surround it, and five are to attack it. The defender who occupies the favorable terrain has a much more cost-effective battle loss ratio than the attacking side, Liu Chong and others sent soldiers to climb the city wall with a ladder, and I don't know how many elite dead soldiers died in the process, but after fighting for a long time, Xu Rong also escaped from the north gate, how frustrating it was, you can imagine.

Also unhappy, there were Cao Ren and Cao Hong, who ran for nothing, and the two sat in the hall, staring at each other with big eyes, and did not speak.

Xu Chu hastily swept the expressions of everyone in the hall, and after knowing it, he walked in front of Cao Ren and Cao Hong and poured wine for them in person.

"Let the two tiger and wolf generals go for nothing, Xu Chu is not careful about the enemy, and make amends to the two."

With that, take a drink of yourself.

Xu Chu still has traces of ordinary otaku in his bones, and when he toasted and apologized, he had a trace of trepidation and uneasiness on his face, pretending to be very like. Cao Ren and Cao Hong are military generals after all, and their minds are not so meticulous, but after seeing this, they feel that they are making a bit of a fuss.

Xu Chu is a local hero, with the same background as himself, and it is understandable that he ignored the situation of Zhucheng. As for the fact that they did not have any gains, the Xu and Cao coalition forces temporarily lost the upper hand, and they can only blame their bad luck.

After that, the group began to discuss the next step of the march.

Let's talk about Xu Rong's movements first. After breaking through from Liangxian, because Li Meng was defeated first, a part of the cavalry was lost, and when Xu Rong passed through Zhucheng, he ordered Huaxiong to break off and evacuate in the direction of Yique and Dagu in the north. Xu Rong's number of soldiers and horses should still be more than 2,000, and together with the defenders of Yique and Dagu, before they got the news from Cao Cao, everyone felt that it was not easy to attack.

Although Xu Chu was anxious to fight Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu and others, he also knew that the time was not ripe, so he said to everyone: "Then first take Guangchengju and Yangren Ju." ”

Guangchengju and Yangrenju are similar to Zhucheng, both are military strongholds, and they are also under the jurisdiction of Liang County. Both of these places were also fortified and easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are three city towers in Yangrenju, and there is a swamp outside the Dongcheng Tower, called 'Lu Gongpi', the perennial water accumulation in Pizhong is not conducive to marching, the county seat of Liangxian County is in the east of Yangrenju, and it is not easy to take down Yangrenju.

Guangcheng is even more amazing. Emperor Ling was shocked by the chaos of the Yellow Turban, and at the same time set up eight gates around Luoyang, one of which was Guangcheng Pass.

Guangcheng Pass is different from the other seven passes, those seven passes are the necessary places to enter Luoyang, it is difficult to cross, but Guangcheng Pass is not only shorter, but also biased towards the existence of military fortresses, which is equivalent to burying a nail on the road to Yique and Dagu in the north through Liang County. If you don't defeat him, you can't do it, because if you abandon it, it is equivalent to leaving a hidden danger of being attacked at any time after the army.

However, it is still the same sentence, this time, that time. What time of year is it now, the world is in turmoil, Dong Zhuo has the intention of moving the capital to avoid trouble, and the significance of this Guangchengguan is not as great as before. And judging from Xu Rong's direct escape to the north, Yangren and Guangcheng should not be in Dong Zhuo's plan, so there should not be many defenders, and less than a thousand is a problem.

Everyone has no objection to taking Guangcheng and Yangren first, and the question is who will go.

Xu Chu was thinking about this problem, and Cao Ren and Cao Hong were also thinking about it. Different from the situation of Zhucheng, Xu Rong's cavalry was still in Liangxian at that time, and it was not cost-effective to spend time on Zhucheng, but now that Xu Rong is gone, there is no threat of cavalry sneak attack at any time, Cao Ren and Cao Hong pondered whether to ask for battle.

After pondering, they finally thought that it was better to get the credit in front of them first, and after the two of them summed up softly, they both asked Xu Chu to attack Guangcheng.

Subsequently, Liu Chong and Zhai Rong asked for battle to attack the Yangren.

Xu Chu thought for a moment and agreed. These two places can definitely be taken, but at the same time, there will be some casualties. Besiege and attack, at least two or three days, more than five or six days, siege and pull out the village has always been manual work. He still prefers to keep his strength as much as possible, waiting to deal with a stronger enemy.

Just when Cao Ren, Liu Chong and others were preparing to go to Guangcheng and Yangren, Cao Cao finally came to hear from them.

In order to buy time for Xu Chu to take Liang County and Xu Tu to the north, Cao Cao immediately ordered the whole army to drive to the vicinity of Songshan after arriving in Yangcheng, and made the appearance of vowing to take Yuyuan Pass. In order to play the trick enough, it didn't take long for him to start arranging troops to tackle key problems. How majestic is Yuyuan Pass, it is several times more difficult to attack than the county seat of Liangxian County, and the soldiers and horses led by Cao Cao, except for the 500 cavalry of Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, are all new soldiers who are not strong in battle, and they attack for days and days, only increasing casualties. When the morale was so low that no one was willing to attack, Cao Cao ordered Xiahoudun to return to Yangcheng with the remnants of the footmen, and he and Xiahou Yuan led 500 light horsemen to the southwest to join forces with Xu Chu.

Less than half a day after the first letter arrived, a second letter came.

The second letter was sent by Xu Shu, who stayed in Yangzhai. Xu Shu is the only Zhonglang general of Xu Chubiao, and he has been familiar with those people in Yanling and Yuxian for a long time, and it is very suitable for him to mediate in the Yangzhai Bureau and allocate grain, grass and people.

The content of Xu Shu's letter is very simple, and it can be summed up in eight words: Kong Ling is sick, and Liu Bei is here.

Seeing that Kong Ling was sick, Xu Chu was still talking and laughing with Guo Jia, Xi Zhong and others, and when he saw Liu Bei coming, Xu Chu stood up and said in his heart: Why is he here?

The strange thing about Xu Chu is that Liu Bei Ying has never participated in the discussion of Dong, if I remember correctly, he should still be on Gongsun Zhan's side at this time. Now that Liu Bei is not only here, but also found Xu Shu in Yangzhai, Xu Chu is puzzled, and he can't help but think of the twists and turns that may occur.

Inferred from common sense, even if Liu Bei participated in the discussion of Dong because he arrived at the end of the Han Dynasty, his first choice must be to vote for Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, and take a step back and say, even if Liu Bei didn't go to Yuan Shao, he should also go to Sour Jujube, after all, the Sour Jujube coalition is the strongest, how can he retreat to the second best and come to Yingchuan?

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Chu thought of a possibility, that is, Liu Bei may not have been valued by Yuan Shao and the princes of Sujujube or even directly turned away, so he came to Yingchuan to find Xu Chu, who was a hero.

"What do you think about doing so much......" Xu Chu looked at the end of the letter again, Xu Shu wrote: Liu Bei has come to the lord with his righteousness.

The 'righteous obedience' that Xu Shu said is probably Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Touching the swollen scalp, Xu Chu said in his heart: If you come, you will be safe......